Tuesday, 4 September 2012

The long arm and bottomless wallet of the Welsh Assembly Government

Totalitarianism: The state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

The whole Badman farce showed that when the government has an agenda, when there's some pesky little anomaly that needs rectifying and bringing under government control, they have no qualms about concocting fabricated evidence (that causes lasting damage in the minds of the public even once disproved), get reports written by 'experts' they have in their pockets to find the evidence that supports their position (whether that evidence is factual or, erm... not), and time everything to manipulate public sentiment to their advantage.

Apparently the Welsh assembly haven't even bothered to do this. Haven't even bothered with the charade. (At least, yet.) They've forgotten that there ever was a purpose to bringing in legislation. They state it in black and white in their consultation, they want control of this thing that they don't have control of. No matter that there's nothing to show that this is needed, or that it would be beneficial. In fact, whenever you look at the figures, home education surpasses local authorities' efforts by far. On education. On welfare.